France Info streams continuous live news and information in French, and you can hear it free on Radio Shuffle from anywhere in the world.
Europe's First All-News Radio Network
France Info launched on June 1, 1987, the creation of Roland Faure and Jérôme Bellay, operated by the public broadcaster Radio France in partnership with France Télévisions, according to Wikipedia's history of the network. It went on air as one of Europe's first radio services built entirely around round-the-clock news and information, a format that was still relatively untested on the continent at the time, broadcasting on 105.5 MHz across most of France.
Built Its Audience During Moments of Crisis
France Info's audience has grown steadily since launch, with particularly sharp jumps during the social conflicts of 1995, 2003, and 2006, according to Wikipedia, periods when French listeners turned to a station built specifically to deliver news continuously rather than in scheduled bulletins. That pattern, audience spikes during strikes, protests, and national crises, has become a recurring feature of the station's growth, reflecting exactly the niche a 24-hour news format is built to fill.
France's Fourth-Biggest Radio Network
Today France Info ranks as roughly the fourth largest radio network in France by listener numbers, trailing only RTL, NRJ, and its own sister station France Inter. That places a station built entirely around news and information ahead of most music-driven competitors in the country's overall radio rankings, an unusual position for an all-news format anywhere in the world.
A Brand That Extended to Television
The France Info name has since grown beyond radio into a dedicated television news channel run by France Télévisions, extending the same round-the-clock news mission across a second medium. The radio network remains the original version of the brand, the format the television channel borrowed its identity from rather than the other way around.
Why Tune In
France Info offers a straightforward pitch nearly forty years after its launch: continuous French news, no music, no filler, built for listeners who want information the moment they tune in rather than waiting for the next scheduled bulletin. For anyone following French current events in real time, it remains exactly what it was built to be.
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